Alice Walker on Censorship
Guernica interviews Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and one of the most censored contemporary writers, in honor of Banned Books Week. The Color Purple has been voted off…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Actual morning coffee. Important news: octopuses are great! More important news: maybe being depressed is secretly great! No curves for British children. Far too impractical. Slug based art is the…
FUNNY WOMEN #87: Delusions of Grandeur
I told him that I was a novelist and modeled in between books to support the online charity I’d founded to send unwanted makeup to women abroad.
Lit Crawl: “On Hands and Knees”
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “On Hands and Knees” Lit Crawl Phase 3: Saturday, Oct 13th, 8:30 – 9:30 pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. With readings from…
Post-Publication Predicament
“Hi, God? I can’t think of anything more humiliating than getting sued for libel by someone no one’s ever heard of over a book no one actually bought, let alone…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you’d like to see a glock being fired underwater. Let us now discuss the lost states. Good news! Maggot farms will save us all. 50 years of New York…
Congratulations!
Scroll down to the most recent Rumpus Sunday Interview, the one where Sunday Editor Gina Frangello writes “I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite…
The Silent History
Today, Adam Levin (author of Rumpus Book Club hit selection The Instructions) talks with Kevin Moffett, a co-author of The Silent History, the recently released novel written as an app.…
Notable San Francisco: 10/1-10/7
This week in San Francisco! Monday 10/1: Banned by the Bay and Project Censored discuss the role of modern media in censorship and the most censored headlines of 2012. Free,…
Notable New York: This Week 10/1-10/7
This week in NYC: TUESDAY 10/2: BookCourt celebrates the release of A.M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven with a release party, reading, Q&A, and book signing. 7pm, free. WEDNESDAY 10/3:…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hello chief officer dog. Plankton is neat! 60 year old (pictures of) skeletons. I am totally fascinated by this true size of Africa map. Hey look you guys, the Curiosity…